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Lamp Burner.

No. 102,552. Patented May'3, 1870.

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JAMES H. JOHNSON, OF NEWARK, JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HOLMES,

BOOTH & HAYDENS, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 102,552, dated May 3, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-BURNERS The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. JOHNSON, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Lamps, and the following is declared to be a correct descriptionthere- Lamp-burners'have been made with a round wicktube, and with an exterior air-tube coming up above such wick-tube, from the edges of which the flame rises.- This exterior tube serves to lessen the heat of the wick-tube, by keeping the flame from direct contact with the same.

Deflecting-plates have also been employed above or around the wick-tube, to direct the air that passes to the flame, and, in some cases, to spread the flame.

My invention consists in a wick-tube having openlogs on opposite sides at the upper end, and with wings applied below these openings. I p

The result of this construction is that the flame from the wick is spread, rendered thin, and the comhustion made more perfect than heretofore.

The wick does not require to project above the upper end of the wick-tube, because it is exposed 'at the two sides, and beneath these portions are the said wings. Hence the flame spreads and burns above these wings and the upper end of the wick-tube, and the wick itself does not become charred and consumed as rapidly as usual.

The flame being spread out thin, there is better opportunity for the air to act in rendering the combination perfect.

In the drawinga is the wick-tube of a burner, of any desired character. v

b is the ratchet-cap, and c, the wick-raiser.

My improvement is shown upon a no-chimney burner, but I do not limit myself in this particular.

The upper end of the wick-tubeis either straight or slightly rounding at 2, and the openings at 3 3 extend partially down the wick-tube,.and-at opposite sides or edges of the same; and 4 4 are the wings spread outa flat or other Wick, and more than two wings might be used, if desired. I claim as my inventlou.

, The openings 3 in the wick-tube, combined withthe wings 4, extending out from the bottom portions of such openings, substantially as and for thepurposes' specified.-

Signed by'me this 25th day of March, A. I). 1870.

JAS. H. JOHNSON. Witnesses:

- CHAS. H. SMITH, GEO. T. PIxcKNEY. 

